Visuals, Audio, & Video, Multimedia, & Internets

Hi all...This is the continuation of IMALT task before. 

IMALT

1.   The definition of Media (your own definition)

2.   Offline Media in ELT and its research findings (find three articles about offline media in ELT)

3.   Online Media in ELT and its research findings (find three articles about online media in ELT)

4.   Current Research on ICT in ELT (what can you draw for the current research trend in media of ELT)

5.   The advantages of ICT in ELT (define some advantages of ICT in ELT)

6.   Possible SPACE for research (try to find the possible topic for research of media ICT in ELT)

7.   Concluding Remarks (make a conclusion from your own reading materials)

1. Media is one of communication tools that people use to connect in society such as through radio, television, newspapers, magazines, and the internet that influence people widely.

2. Offline media is one of the tools that people use books, real objects, pictures/photos, flashcards, boards, etc.

3. Online media is one of the tools/technology for the people to communicate or to share information using WhatsApps, YouTube, Skype, Zoom, google class, or other media.

4. Current Research on ICT in ELT during this pandemic situation. Mostly people avoid being in the crowded places and using online technology to do learning activities with the students. That’s the most possible way to make the learning activities runs well during the social and physical distancing that we do in the current situation.

5. The advantages of ICT in ELT are:

a. The best complementary tool for teachers

b. Technology in language learning is motivating and stimulating for students

c. ease in managing and monitoring student progress

d. create a unique experience as much for teacher as the students

e. Promote interactivity and collaboration within learning

6. Possible SPACE for research of media ICT in ELT

I found one article that discussing about The use of ICT in teaching English as a foreign language. We know ICT as Communication Technology and how is it influence the students’ learning especially in this current situation. The integration of new ICT tools such as laptop, interactive whiteboard, LCD projector, internet and social networks in education support will help learners to use English in a very natural, real, communicative, and stress free language learning environment. ICT. It will help the learning activities and more on student-centered, and self-assessment for the older students. But, on the other hand, the integration of ICT can also bring certain disadvantages. The teachers may have difficulty in relation to the integration and implementation of technological.  

Below are my journal resources for Offline and Online Media in ELT:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BK-hD_8Hc7a7rpBaFcjN9UlRhsGLZRzk/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BAMFxGcHesetxQQAxPC9G3S4KTdIYVow/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BA5l4G82uhaZ0Ka0LN0OjMoZdcnJMGaC/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BIijd8ncpFHUYOjoHGySVtCVrNbbOFF7/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BKg0Uhte2Epb00t-MrPMv1V-6BMu6VEW/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BMIGzX6vn4dead7cIZ3hRVzdGV5XUWHk/view?usp=sharing

7. Concluding Remarks

A Multimedia Offline Cell Phone System For English Language Learning that being very useful in enhancing the language skills of the students and have the advantage of being accessible by large number of students through their regular cell phone.

Then, the mind mapping-silent card shuffle combination technique gave a great significance to improve students’ achievement in writing a narrative text. It could be seen from the mean scores differences of both groups and also the result of interview. Then, the combination technique was very convenient for students.

 The effectiveness of picture crossword puzzle game in teaching vocabulary that can be inferred that the picture crossword puzzle is a good method in teaching vocabulary, but so does the conventional method (translation) for offline learning.

 Mobile assisted language learning for EFL learners’ perceptions toward the use of mobile applications in learning English that are considered to be useful and helped their learning, besides it was overall easy to use as one of the online learning.

 To add the online learning, one of them is YouTube. It is as a Media in English Language Teaching (ELT) Context: Teaching Procedure Text that has affective reasons for the use of video was argued from the standpoint that there is a good possibility that is students are familiar with YouTube, which could have a positive influence on their motivation.

As YouTube give the positive influence to the students’ learning (not only the bad one), video animation as teaching media in ELT also help the students to develop themselves during online learning that made the teachers need to be literate of any modern way of developing teaching and learning media. They need to learn software application which facilitates them in creating interesting and engaging animated media for teaching. Technology training is intended to help the teacher to choose the learning topics that will be designed and to assist the teachers to create animated videos using modern apps.

 References

 https://www.journal.unnes.ac.id/sju/index.php/elt/issue/archieve

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322294214_The_use_of_ICT_in_teaching_English_as_a_foreign_language

https://www.cae.net/5-benefits-using-new-technology-language -learning/

Diagnostic Test IMALT (Pre-test)

Hi..Hi..back to the blog. This writing will be about IMALT (Instructional Media & Activities in Language Teaching.

1.      Media is the plural form of medium, which (broadly speaking) describes any channel of communication. This can include anything from printed paper to digital data, and encompasses art, new, educational content and numerous other forms of information. Digital media, which makes up an increasingly  vast portion of modern communications, is comprised of intricately encoded signals that are transmitted over various forms of physical and virtual media, such as fiber optic cable and computer networks.

https://www.techopedia.com/definition/1098/media 

2.    Roles of Media:

a.     Informative Role: There is a desire for the “informed citizen”, therefore it is the media’s duty to inform the people of what is going on with our leaders, our government, the social world, the economy, the environment, etc. so that we are capable of making rational and accurate decisions.

b.     Educative Role: Citizens what to know the significance of events, how policies and regulations will affect our lives, etc. The media should not just throw the information at us, but assist us in understanding and comprehending what it is that we are hearing/seeing.

c.     Platform Role: The media should serve as a platform to various groups in society; therefore, they must be diversified , objective, unbiased, and allow voices to be heard from all society as well as the government, our leaders and the corporate voice in the “establishment”. It is the media’s duty to provide to the public an opportunity to hear all sides of a story, not just what is included in ministerial. (i.r. one government’s platform)

d.     Publicity Role: Politicians, leaders, celebrities, activists, intellects, etc. all use the media to publicize themselves and their mandate, cause, goal, or duty.  Through the media, they can access the public on a widespread basis and draw attention to themselves – for better, or worse.

e.     Adversarial Role: Relating to the government, the media functions as it adversary or a “watch dog” to ensure that the government is being responsible, transparent, accountable, just, and is acting in the public interest, free of fraud, illegality, or personal benefit. The media evaluates the performance of the government and plays the part of the “skeptic” when the government tells them information.

f.        Advocacy Rule: The media is a marketplace of ideas, so they should hear, broadcast and promote different viewpoints from different parties, whether it be social groups political parties, religous organizations, etc.  However the media has to be careful when playing this role.  Using politics as an example, they can either publish views of many political parties and advocate them to the public or they can persuade people to vote for a particular party. Clearly the latter is much more subjective and bias than the first.

It is important that the media upholds and performs these 6 functions/roles because if they do not, then they will not be representing themselves properly and we will have a ‘democratic deficit’. https://thejottingjournal.wordpress.com/2010/10/01/6-roles-of-the-media  

3.    Method

a.     Public Relations

An often uncharted territory for most clients, the evolution of great Public Relations comes from understanding the border of what makes your company and products of value to the media's audience and taking it to the edge. For Method Media's clients, it's not just PR ... but CPR- Creative Public Relations that makes the difference.

b.     Advertising

Advertising should create an emotional connection with conviction, creativity and communication. Not just pretty pictures (although they can help!), we develop creative advertising that positions our clients with a passionate edge: targeted messages, indelible images, and a sales-motivating vision designed to generate attention and action.

c.     Collateral Design

Collateral design/sales tools are essential to driving your brand on a daily basis. Vital tools that ultimately communicate in the field when you're sales team's not around, they're often the inception of establishing relationships with your audience.

d.     Web Design & Development

If the World Wide Web is “live”, then why are so many websites lifeless? As an integral interface with your audience, your web presence should exist at the edge of the big picture: leveraging interactive tools that create real value as a resource for your audience.

http://methmedia.net/

4.    What are technologies for learning?

Technology and instructions in EFL Classrooms context

The application of technology has considerably changed English teaching methods. It provides so many alternatives as making teaching interesting and more productive in terms of advancement (Patel, 2013). In traditional classrooms, teachers stand in front of learners and give lecture, explanation, and instruction through using blackboard or whiteboard. These method must be changed concerning the development of technology. The usage of multimedia texts in classroom assists learners in become familiar with vocabulary and language structures. The application of multimedia also makes use of print texts, film, and internet to enhance learners’ linguistic knowledge. The use of print, film, and internet gives learners the chance to collect information and offers them different materials for the analysis and interpretation of both language and contexts (Arifah, 2014). http://ijreeonline.com/article-1-120-en.pdf

 

Technologies for learning:

Computer: Digitized speech and video, offered by the use of computer, can also be highly effective for developing this important language skill. Using a computer, with the internet, also has plenty of benefits for developing listening. Such use can provide so many authentic audio and video resources to listen and to develop the associated language skills.

Social networking sites like Skype, Nimbuzz, Yahoo, and Facebook, etc. allow  kind of audio as well as video talk, in addition to IM (instant messaging) service. This kind of online talk, with native speakers of English, has been advocated, as a very useful tool for improving speaking proficiency as well as pronunciation by the scholars like Payne and Whitney (2002). 

https://www.institutoculturalonline.com.mx/unit/technology-in-an-efl-classroom-wk01-l04/

 

Using podcasting in language education in both theory and practice provides many advantages because it can help teachers enhance students’ English skills. In this regard, Rosell-Aguilar (2007) remarks that podcasting can support principles promoted by different theories of learning, such as the use of authentic materials, informal and lifelong learning, the use of learning objects and just-in-time teaching. Furthermore, students improve their pronunciation, listening and speaking abilities and become more aware of cross-cultural customs (Stanley, 2006; Lee, 2009, Powel, 2006). Another technological tool that can be used in the EFL classroom is Padlet, which can help teachers provoke students to eager participation with authentic, stimulating, and motivating content (Baida, 2014).

https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1140683.pdf